09/28/2010
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"it is a lot easier to be vigorous and outspoken. But it is different as you begin to think about the awesome responsibility of serving as an Attorney General."
"The Solicitor General... has a duty, the Department of Justice does, to defend the laws passed by this body, by Congress."
"I will, Senator Crapo. And I would note on the death penalty case, my appellate lawyers gave a little briefing of the cases that were coming up, and they said, 'We will be defending this death case, b..."
"Well, it can fail to enforce it by setting prosecutorial policies with regard to declining to prosecute whole chunks of cases and, in effect, eliminate a statute."